AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4693, 28 November 1876, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SYDNEY, November 12. At the Criminal Sessions the trial of Luxford, for killing his children at Penrith, was postponed until next session, on the ground of the prisoner's insanity. Henry Williams, charged, with the murder of Elizabeth Horusby, was convicted of manslaughter, and remanded for sentence. Fifteen cases of supposed tobacco, shipped to order under the signature " E. Nord, Melbourne," came by the b.s. Hero. No owner was found for them. On opening the cases, they were found to be filled with sand, it is supposed they have been shipped with the object of obtaining an advance from some Melbourne bank. November 13. The Premier, Attorney-General, and Minister of Lands arrived at Twofold Bay-to-day, and were escorted to Bega by a cavalcade of 200 horsemen. Notice of motion was given at the meeting of the Cricket Association to-night that this -colony meet the English Eleven on equal 1 -Tins. The amount of £1040 collected for the andenong Relief Fund has been divided :■ aongst 18 persons. Captain Walker gets £100. It is proposed to form a shipwreck fund on the same basis as the Victorian society. A terrific thunderstorm burst over Mudgee on Saturday night, and the fall of rain in the district has been extremely heavy. Rush, the sculler, of Grafton, has issued a challenge to Trickett. A young man named Charles Flood has been arrested for feloniously cutting and wounding his wife. - November 14. : _ The immgrant ship Nineveh is in quarantine, some of the children being affected with chicken-pox. A riot is reported as probably at the Great Cobar Copper Mines, in the Bourke district. The manager refuses to allow the residents ii i.<Lc w-t:r from a izsk situated between j

th« mines and the township. A trooper had to draw hi» revolver to keep order. A boat partly stove in and fall of water, has been found off the coast, 25 miles sooth of Sydney. '■■ Three men, named Russell, Stephens, and Belhid, have been arrested at Brisbane, with • .quantity of stolen goods in their possession, tne property of Hofihung and Co. ' An apprentice named Chant was lost overboard, during the passage of the Martha Birnie, from London. ADELAIDE, November 12. Mr. Wm. Peirce Tate, late partner in the firm of Green and Co., auctioneers, has died suddenly. A hot wind is blowing, and the barometer indicates rough weather. November 13. The Government introduced the second Loan Bill, omitting the three items objected to by the Council, and it has been carried through all its stages, except the third reading, after a stormy debate, Mr. Boucaut and other members opposing the course as an abandonment of the privileges of the Assembly. Unsuccessful attempts were made to reinsert the amounts for Victor Harbour and Port Broughton works. The third reading is fixed for to-morrow, a message from the Governor being necessary before it can pass. Mr. Boucaut will then raise the question as to whether the bill is in order, as it contains items included in the other bill, which has not been disposed of, the chairman in the Council having simply left the chair. The new iron bridge to cross the Torrens has been shipped from England. November 14 The Registrar-General's statistics for 1875 shew the death rate in the city to have been 3G in every 1000, as compared with 17 in 1000 outside the city. A barman named Franke attempted suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. He is expected to recover. BRISBANE, November 12. Miss Meredith, who was seriously burned on Thursday, has died. A mineral, supposed to be tin ore, has been discovered at the Hodgkinson goldtield. November 13. Robert Armour has been remanded on a charge of misdemeanour under the Insolvency Act, by making a false proof of debt in Medhurst's estate. The steamer Tambaroora takes 300 tons of maize for the Melbourne market.